Too Close to the Falls
A Memoir
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Price:
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$27.99
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On Sale:
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26/02/2003
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B Format Paperback
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A prize-winning, bestselling, rivetingly dark and funny memoir of a most unusual girl growing up in a small town near Niagara Falls.
It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls, famous only for the invention of the cocktail. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon, and television has only just arrived.
But with no siblings to provide role models; a workaholic father chosen by most of her class as Lewiston′s present-day saint; a mother who looks the part of the perfect, fifties housewife but refuses to play it (′We ate all of our dinners in restaurants䎵r fridges contained only allergy serum, coke and maraschino cherries. Our oven was only turned on to dry wet mittens on the door and the only cooking smell I remember from my youth is that of burning wool′); and a gambling-obsessed best friend, Roy, who is 30 years older, perhaps it′s hardly surprising that Cathy grows up a little eccentric. Especially considering that the family doctor′s prescription for her hyperactivity is a full-time job in her father′s pharmacy - at the age of four.
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Critical Praise for
Too Close to the Falls
"A joy to read. I look forward to the promised sequel" -- North & South
irresistible heroine this vibrant memoir set in small-town America in the Fifties is so crammed with eccentric characters and bizarre anecdotes that it reads like a novel.⟜′96 Daily Mail
"Too Close to the Falls is brilliant and there′s more to come" - The Southland Times
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